Wolverinebass

Is anyone going to be driving through Reading so I don't have to sit on a rail replacement bus for 45 minutes? Just for the records.

The last person who did that to me asked why I was playing "such a crap bass and not a precision." I was playing an Alembic. That was about 15 years ago. It didn't end well as I lamped him. Not for that comment, but for some others which were much more offensive.

I would imagine brandishing some sort of club or weapon will make them pay for the rehearsal. Oh, sorry, everyone is talking about organisation.

I think that model is 600W. I toyed with getting one of them about 20 years ago, but the weight put me off. I think the joke is that Ashdown recently launched the new ABM range and the 4x10 are still 35kg and they're trying to charge £1300 for them. It's almost like time has stood still and chiropractic costs have come down.

That will have a horrible neck profile for it. That's before you get to all the other nonsense that would have to be done to it to convert it. If you're going to get one, just get a proper one. Either the Schecter Dug Pinnick or get Brooks to make one that has EMG DC's and BTS system in it. Then you're in full Hamer territory. Job done.

Frankly, no banana yellow Auerswald, no deal. None of the basses on sale are any that you would care about. Great, a bunch of horribly ugly Warwicks bought when he was changing basses every song on tour. Hold me back from selling my kids into copper mine slavery.

Yeah, plus I bet the venue took 40% of that merch cash as well for doing absolutely nothing.

This has been my experience over the last couple of years too. There are things that I won't do and things that I'll never get to do because of the culture of moronic 30 second videos and clickbait crap. People low balling you because what you do isn't valued. Not because you're not good at it. Why would it ever be valued when this is people's perception of what a musician is. Spotify is basically free. What you do doesn't matter. If we all became nodding dogs maybe we might have more luck.

It's a joke which came about from one of my own bands. I was discussing cymbals with my drummer and he said he had seen a Zildjian ride cymbal called "the megabell." Basically it had a hugely pronounced and exaggerated dome which I presume was designed that way so that it was impossible to miss. When he told me what it was called, I burst out out laughing saying that it sounded like a great insult. "That guy's not a bellend, he's a f@&*ing megabell!" In that they have transcended the normal level of bellendry to a higher lofty plain that us mere mortals will never attain.

Turro is a thief and a megabell. Sapko and all the other Youtubers mentioned are megabells. I find them all grating, so I don't watch them. In fact, Sapko, Davie504, Charles Berthoud and Scott Devine are the 4 megabell horsemen of the apocalypse as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who thinks that anything will change other than Sapko's bank balance because of his "moral stand" is deluded. Turro will go back to doing what he does, stealing other people's work and Sapko will get the clicks and ad money from our collective outrage. Then, he might figure out something else to say "bass" about in a hyper stylised northern accent.

Thanks for putting the idea into my head! Ha! I'm happy with my Vanderkley 2x12 currently, but things change, especially as they've went out of business. It might be worth a punt to get one for smaller gigs. Having said that, the bass I took to the SW bash and the HX Stomp settings I used I know exactly how they should sound and that's exactly how it sounded. As there's so much top end and percussive distortion in my signal, it's something that I have to be able to hear clearly to be able to relax. If the cab doesn't reproduce it, then, that's a problem. I'm sure other people at the bash would have much rather I was a precision with flats person. They didn't get to relax because I could hear what I wanted to. Ha!

Nice work squire. Glad to have helped you out.

There is that Chris. I'm someone who is quite particular about how I sound. I can say that @stevie's cabs are possibly the best I've ever played. A lot of people gauge things on the low end. I always compare on the treble end. If that's off then I'm not interested, because if it is, you can pretty much guarantee the mid range is wrong and the bass end will probably be hyped or coloured. I hasten to say that I'm not on retainer, nor do I even own an Lfsys cab. They're just really, really good and if you value sonic fidelity of what you put in is what comes out, then this is what you're after.

I could always bring my Hamer.

Yeah, that is of course my Grainger Hades on the right. I think a few folk thought it was just "too mad" to have a go on, which was a pity. Naturally, sonically, it's set up for me, so precision with flats it most definitely is not. Noisy? Not really. Loud? Absolutely! I don't think that one can play a bass that visually striking quietly without appearing silly. Especially not when you're playing through a Laney Nexus and one of your Monaco cabs.